Software Engineering weblog

Though software test automation has been around for quite some time by now, success with test automation is far and few. Test automation space is replete with marketing hype, technical jargon, and claims of “silver bullet” solutions. Adding to the woes are idiosyncrasies of test automation tools used. Scene is sufficiently confusing to an innocent but curiously enticing to the gullible.

In my experience, failures are partly due to i) expectations based on hype rather than facts from the field, ii) half-hearted but expensive approach to automation as an extension of manual testing and iii) lack of business focus. These are, by no means, unique to software test automation; we have seen this repeated many times over in the past

I am glad to see such an effort; it is need of the hour. I hope this magazine would help in harvesting success patterns, promoting knowledge exchange, scientific spirit and objective analysis in test automation space.

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Software engineer referred here is not a person with designation “software engineer” or similar but a practitioner in perpetual quest in balancing academic interest with business priorities.

This is blog of my forays into software engineering!! Indeed, software engineering is not new; it is there for decades now… to be precise, since NATO conference 1968. But does it make sense? does it have practical relevance? in the context of business imperatives? what does practical adoption involve? … and many more questions follow

In my business, my endeavor to deliver business success to my customers leveraging software engineering principles, best practices, tools, technology and so on… and my learning and experiences are what I seek to share here